Skip the taxis and just walk this car-free zone. Spend your evening hopping between local stalls for steaming chicken momos and cheap butter tea while people-watching. It gets crowded around 7pm, so snag a bench near the fountain early. Don’t waste time on the overpriced handicraft shops; focus on the street food scene instead. If you want the real pulse of the city, this is where you park yourself for an hour or two.

